Reblog. Even as a kid I thought the book's spelling was odd as fuck. Are you on team Berenstein or Berenstain… I'll have to check them out when I get home to see for sure! It's 'stain for me, but I do remember people who were bad/average readers getting it wrong as a kid. Share. Your Whole Life Is a Lie: It’s BerenstAin Bears, Not BerenstEin Bears. Every cover stated "The Berenstain Bears." They are from the 80s. The name never changed, ever. The Berenstain Bears. Some of y’all weren’t randomly thrown from the E Universe where it’s spelled Berenstein Bears to the this parallel A Universe (Berenstain) unexpectedly between childhood and early adulthood and it SHOWS. The entire time you were growing up and reading the books and watching the show, they were called the "Berenstain Bears". DH and I both have our old collections at home for DD. Yahoo Health • August 13, 2015. I remember calling them Bernestein bears, but that I think I heard it should really be Berenstain...but I'm not sure how it was actually spelled. This is some messed up sh**. My brain hurts, and my reality is broken. Tweet. The Berenstein vs Berenstain Bears thing really has my head spinning even the librarian and teachers who used to read it to me and my classmates when we were young said Berenstein, every single one of them. That, coupled with different people pronouncing it different ways, yields the "memory" that it used to be spelled differently. The authors were always named Stan and Jan Berenstain. At no point have the bears ever been called the "Berenstein Bears." Of course, I'd assumed that they were the Berenstein Bears all this time, since '-stein' is a breezy, believable surname suffix for a lineage of adorable anthropomorphic bears! It's a stupid, if not juicy, theory. ! Nothing more. A Redditor has uploaded a photo of Mama Bear and Brother Bear of the "Berenstain Bears," but with tags reading "Berenstein." Share.